Russian Embassy denies deploying troops to Ukraine

As terrifying as the situation in Ukraine is—government assaulting protesters, protesters overthrowing their government—at least it seemed we could agree that Russia had moved troops into the country.

But when Louise Mensch, a former member of the U.K. Parliament, began tweeting about what might happen next, she got a strikingly candid look at the country's mentality from the Russian embassy. You see, despite Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's insistence that Russian troops had moved into the semi-autonomous region of Crimea "until the normalisation of the political situation," the country is presenting the troop movement as simply protecting ethnic minorities around its Crimean military bases.